Richard Morrison

There’s a lot of talk right now about ‘culture wars’ – the clash between those who see the

UK’s future as primarily focused on ‘Britishness’ and those who would prefer the country to be outward-looking and multicultural. Three points occur to me. The first is that such tensions have existed for centuries. The second is that music has always been a prime battleground (and still is; I have the psychological scars to prove it). And the